Tactile interface system for electronic data display system
AssigneeVirtouch Ltd.
InventorsRoman Gouzman, Igor Karasin
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Abstract
An electronic data display system (EDDS) which includes a system for containing a multiple data field environment (MDFE) including portions of displayable data; at least first and second displays for displaying data contained within the MDFE, capable of displaying data selected from different portions of the MDFE, wherein at least one of the displays is a tactile display; apparatus for selecting data for display by the first display, from a first portion of the MDFE; and apparatus for selecting data for display by the first display, from a second portion of the MDFE, different from the first portion.
Claims13
An electronic data display system (EDDS) which includes:
- a computer system for containing a multiple data field environment (MDFE) including portions of displayable data;
- at least first and second data selection apparatuses, associated with said computer system, for selecting data from different portions of the MDFE for display;
- at least first and second tactile displays for displaying data contained within the MDFE, capable of simultaneously displaying data selected from different portions of the MDFE;
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- software for extraction of the different selected portions of data, and for transforming the extracted data for simultaneous display by said at least first and second tactile displays.
A method of tactile display of data forming part of a MDFE stored in a computer memory, which includes:
- selecting different portions of data from the computer memory;
- extracting the different selected portions of data;
- transforming the extracted data into a selected format;
- providing the transformed data to at least first and second tactile displays;
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- operating the at least first and second tactile displays so as to display thereat the transformed data corresponding to the data selected from different portions of the computer memory, simultaneously.
An interface device for communicating with a computer which provides to a user access to a computer system containing a multiple data field environment (MDFE), said interface device including:
- a navigation device which includes:
- a housing, and apparatus for sensing a position of the housing relative to an initial position on a planar surface adjacent to an underside of housing, along which said navigation device is moved;
- apparatus for providing the sensed position to the computer, wherein the position of said navigation device with respect to data stored in the computer is represented therein by a fiducial point;
- software for extracting different portions of data associated with the fiducial point, and for transforming the extracted data into a selected format;
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- at least first and second tactile displays mounted onto said housing, operable to receive the formatted data and capable of displaying simultaneously the different portions of data in the selected format thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.